electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-landline-phone-subscriptions

Landline Phone Subscriptions | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 2,439 observations · 43 Europe countries · 1960–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,439 observations of Landline Phone Subscriptions data across 43 Europe countries, spanning 1960–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Landline Phone Subscriptions

Geographic coverage

43 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ALB	64	1960	2023
AUT	64	1960	2023
BEL	64	1960	2023
DNK	64	1960	2023
BLR	64	1960	2023
DEU	64	1960	2023
CHE	64	1960	2023
GBR	64	1960	2023
FRA	64	1960	2023
FIN	64	1960	2023
ESP	64	1960	2023
UKR	64	1960	2023
SVK	64	1960	2023
SWE	64	1960	2023
PRT	64	1960	2023
...	28 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1960
Fixed telephone subscriptions	float64	—	6845.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-landline-phone-subscriptions")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Fixed telephone subscriptions")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_landline_phone_subscriptions_2023,
  title        = {Landline Phone Subscriptions | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/landline-phone-subscriptions},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-landline-phone-subscriptions}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/landline-phone-subscriptions